by Jutta Wille Even if short film only receives low amounts of funding when compared to the overall film funding situation in Germany, it has made a decisive contribution… Read More
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Things change: Animated film archives in the digital age
Film archives traditionally consist of stacked film reels in cold storage. But the holdings of archives for animated film also include production materials such as props, dolls, sets, screenplays, storyboards… Read More
Copenhagen Art Festival
Copenhagen Art Festival: Lars von Trier oversees a total cinematic work of art In 2010, the Danish Arts Council held a competition for a major event on the topic of… Read More
Marion Pfaus
The (Un-)Mistakable Marion Pfaus likes to play with different identities. On her website, the Berliner by choice coyly asserts that she is constantly being mistaken for someone else. Indeed, for… Read More
Streaming video – The reformatting of film and video art on the Internet
Streaming video technologies are becoming increasingly important, not to mention useful, for filmmakers and video artists. Technical improvements and advances such as cloud computing, larger data storage capacities and better… Read More
Festivals show online films live
On 7 June 2012 the Vimeo Awards were presented at the second Vimeo Festival in New York. Hosted by the online platform, the event is a further example of the… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2011
After getting the impression that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we now publish an… Read More
Norwegian media art
Three-year pilot project launched to archive Norwegian media art In 2007 the Arts Council Norway published the report “í… bevare det flyktige” (On preserving the ephemeral), which painted a sad… Read More
Upload Cinema – Web short films at the cinema
Not long after YouTube was founded in 2005, people were already starting to download videos from the platform and present them elsewhere. This usually took place privately – for example… Read More
The year of the curators – A reader’s digest of a mega-trend
According to trend scouts on the Internet and in the features pages, 2011 was the year of the curators. Not the real-life curators, who have already had their year, but… Read More
Digital short films – from production to cinema
The digitization of cinema opens up completely new possibilities for putting films on the screen – options once attainable only at a high price and with a great deal of… Read More
Constellation.tv
Constellation.tv combines social marketing with video-on-demand In early 2011 the video-on-demand platform Constellation.tv was launched – by its own account the “first global movie theatre”. What’s special about the platform… Read More
Gruppe Weimar
Short films for kids Children watch too much television. Ten-year-olds sit in front of the box for an average of over 100 minutes a day. Everyone agrees that escalating television… Read More
Eyewitness films on Internet platforms – An introduction and four examples of media convergence
Internet platforms have been springing up of late that feature documentation and recordings of current events as seen through the eyes of contemporary witnesses. Most of these are editorially supervised… Read More
Experimental Television Center closes
The end of an era – the legendary Experimental Television Center closes In 1971 Ralph Hocking and friends founded the Experimental Television Center (ETC) in New York. Now, after a… Read More
Gut und unter 10 Minuten
Gut und unter 10 Minuten – Kurzfilmverleih in Deutschland von Cornelia Walter Er mag ein Festivalliebling sein und seine Erfolgsgeschichte im Netz haben – eines ist der Kurzfilm sicher nicht,… Read More
BFI and Film London
BFI and Film London put in charge of promoting British film – no funding for short film for the time being In July 2010 the British government decided to abolish… Read More
From book trailer to Vook – A new short film niche
A new niche has now joined the ranks of the many already filled by short film: the so-called “book trailer”. Book trailers are used to market books online. The idea… Read More
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen launches Oberhausen Films Online
March 2011 saw the debut of “Oberhausen Films Online”, a new video-on-demand platform that functions as the virtual video library of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. On offer are… Read More
Future of Animate Projects in jeopardy
For more than 20 years Animate! in London has been the top address in the United Kingdom, if not all of Europe, for artistic animated film. Founded by legendary producer… Read More
Studio Filmbilder
On the art of creative equilibrium There’s a simple rule in the animated film business: if you want to live from animated film, you have to master the balancing act… Read More
For the Unrestricted Circulation of Short Films
Several generations of cinema-goers can probably still remember a time – and it is not even all that long ago – when short film, although still very lively, had almost… Read More
Teaching Artists’ Films
by Stefanie Schlüter This text is the condensed version of a research paper commissioned by the International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen). The paper was presented to the public in a… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2010 – a brief appraisal
Based on the impression that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we now publish an… Read More
Film in the White Cube
Film in the White Cube – Philippe Parreno and the Serpentine Gallery demonstrate how to do it right Almost ten years ago we began to publish here texts on the… Read More
Viva Photofilm – Moving/Non-moving
By photofilms we understand films that essentially consist of photographs. Photographs placed in a cinematic context create a filmic experience. In photofilms, the film medium is dissected into its components…. Read More
Die Kunst, Filme zu zeigen (09/09)
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Agence du court métrage
Agence du court métrage tests distribution of digitised short films The French short film agency has been running its distribution network Réseau alternatif de diffusion (RADI) for 20 years now… Read More